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Dari Or Farsi? Afghanistan's Long-Simmering Language Row

What to call the Persian language in Afghanistan? It's a question Afghans have grappled with and sparred over for decades. The long-simmering dispute was reignited after the BBC changed the name of ...
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Language program gives Soldiers head start on deployment

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Dec. 9, 2008) -- The Defense Language Institute has developed a "Headstart" program to help deploying troops gain skills in Arabic, Pashto and Dari -- languages spoken ...
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Dari-speaking DLIFLC diners devour delicious delicacies, important lessons

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn Share via Email PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduates world-class ...
The Spokesman-Review

Local medical students help Spokane’s Afghan refugees navigate health records: ‘Language access is a big problem, especially in medical settings’

As a child, Mary Kim took on the role of translator for her parents’ medical appointments. A couple of years before she was born, they had immigrated to the U.S. from South Korea. Now a Spokane ...
The Economist

Rorschach linguistics

IT'S a curious fact about the Arabic language that it has no pronoun for "she", nor for "he": the same pronoun is used for both. I'll hold off on my own speculation for now. Can you think of anything ...